• ggvis: both static and interactive graphics, interactive is very much a work in progress (Wickham)
• plotly: has come a long way in the last 12 months, part of Carson Sievert's PhD thesis research. The beuty is that is builds directly onto ggplot2
• animint: Hasn't progressed much in the last year, needs special copy of ggplot2 (Hocking, et al)
• htmlwidgets: has progressed a lot in 12 months, providing the base for other packages, e.g. plotly (Chang)
• rCharts, rbokeh, gridSVG, epivizr

Built on the javascript library vega

library(ggvis)
data("economics", package = "ggplot2")

ggvis(economics, x=~date, y=~psavert)

economics %>%
  ggvis(~date, ~psavert) %>%
  layer_points() %>%
  layer_smooths()

The coolest thing about ggvis is that plot parameters don't need to be static: they can be interactive

• input_text(): text box
• input_slider(): numeric slider
• input_select(): dropdown box
• input_checkbox(): checkbox

economics %>%
  ggvis(~date, ~psavert) %>%
  layer_points() %>%
  layer_smooths(
    span = input_slider(0.2, 1)
  )

• ggvis grabs the R console
• you cannot do any other R commands while an interactive ggvis plot is showing
• exit by clicking on the stop icon on the plot panel

The values provided for the slider (0.2, 1) look like they are not ideal. Change slider bounds so that they are more appropriate for this data.

all_values <- function(x) {
  if (is.null(x)) return(NULL)
  paste0(names(x), ": ", format(x), collapse = "<br />")
}

economics %>%
  ggvis(~unemploy, ~psavert) %>%
  layer_points() %>%
  add_tooltip(all_values, "hover") 

model_type <- input_checkbox(label = "Use loess curve",
  map = function(val) if(val) "loess" else "lm")
economics %>%
  ggvis(~date, ~psavert) %>%
  layer_points() %>%
    layer_model_predictions(model = model_type)

• Convert the model input to two radio buttons
• Add a robust linear model choice, which means adding a third radio button

The plotly package in R builds on the ggplot2 package, adding interactive elements to these plots. It translates plots to javascript.

library(plotly)
plot_ly(economics, x = date, y = unemploy / pop)

ggplot(data=economics, aes(x = date, y = unemploy / pop)) +  
        geom_point() + geom_line()

ggplotly()

library(GGally)
p <- ggpairs(economics[,3:6])
ggplotly(p)

data(canada.cities, package = "maps")
viz <- ggplot(canada.cities, aes(long, lat)) +
  borders(regions = "canada") +
  coord_equal() +
  geom_point(aes(text = name, size = pop), colour = "red", alpha = 1/2)
 ggplotly(viz)

p <- ggplot(sig.tab, aes(x=C_S1_R2, y=C_S2_R1, label=genes)) +
  geom_point(alpha=0.1) + theme(aspect.ratio=1)
ggplotly(p)

Its slow!

Find which ggplot2 geoms are supported in plotly, and maybe one that is not?

library(eechidna)
launchApp(
  age = c("Age20_24", "Age85plus"),
  religion = c("Christianity", "Catholic", "NoReligion"),
  other = c("Unemployed", "Population", "MedianIncome")
)

Go to the plotly github page examples and play with some of the examples.

• ggvis
• plotly

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